More than anything else, I think it was installing Vista that made
me hate PC gaming. The constant, system-level interruptions, the
impaired compatibility, and most of all the savage kick to my
framerate's exposed groin made me wonder what precisely in the
fucking fuck I was doing screwing around with this onyx monolith. I knew I
was just going to have to upgrade eventually (no), and I wanted to see if
there was anything to this DirectX 10 thing (no), and I wanted to
see what the Windows version of Live was like (a warcrime) so I bit the
bullet. I shouldn't have. It was a bullet! That should have been my first
clue.

Is this Microsoft's secret strategy with Vista? To make
everyone by an Xbox because they're sucking the life out of the PC
ecosystem? It hadn't yet occurred to me that Vista was
supposed to be bad.